New Knitting Chart Maker Available!

At last all my ducks are in as close to a straight row as they are going to be for now and I have released the latest version of my Knitting Chart Maker. Please have a play with it and be sure to let me know what you think especially if it does anything weird on you - or if there is something else you'd like it to do.

I know the Saving and Opening leave a lot to be desired, but that is Applets for you. One day it maybe a proper program and it will all be much simpler.

There is some Help on the second part of the page that I hope is useful. Again any feed back at all would be great.

If it won't load you may not have the Java Plug-in installed.

The biggest plan for its future is colour charts - maybe in a month or two!

It is free to use how ever you want - my gift to knitters everywhere :-)

It must be a good day for finishing things because despite having a streaming head cold (in June?? :-( Yes I know. I have no idea where it came from) - I have also completed Gary's socks. I managed to do the second extraction of yarn and grafting with out ripping the whole thing out or killing anyone, and I think they look OK. They fit him and I think they will be good for hiking or the winter. I actually used the chart maker for the "faux-gyle" pattern in them.

Next on my agenda is my khaki skirt. I decided I didn't have enough fabric for that and went back to Jo Ann's for some more. I prewashed it all, and just as well it shran
k about 2ins across the width and length. That would definitely have made an unwelcome difference if I had left the washing til afterwards. Here is the view from our little deck. That's the mountains on the west side of the valley you can see.

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make a screen shot - on PCs there is a Print Screen button on your keyboard. When you press it it copies a screen shot to your clipboard. From there you can use paste to paste into a document that can accept images, like Word or Paint. In Paint you can crop out the bits you don't want. Here is link to info about the Print Screen key http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/print-screen/

Jacquie, Your Knitting Chart Maker program is just what I've been looking for! However I can't figure out how to move around. I created rather large grid (119 stitches, 59 rows) and all I can see is the top left corner. Please advise! Otherwise it is cool and awesome! ~Lorie

Sorry about that. I made it so the chart would fit on the screen for screen shots. Have you tried making the individual stitch size smaller so more fits in the window? Then you can tale a screen shot, paste it into a document and then resize it there. Hope this helps

Came across the Chart Maker while looking for something to help me chart a design for the Masters Hand Knitter program. Everything I found was so expensive until I found this. Thank you so much. I know what a tremendous amount of work it is to program an application.

Hi, it is a really nice tool, but I have one problem. What do I do when I want a large scale grid to show a whole top? I put the grid to fx 79 x 99 sts, but I can only see the top corner of the chart and can't navigate to get to the buttom of the chart to begin designing.

If you have a PC (sorry it doesn't work on a mac) you can download a stand alone version that will let you make the grid as big as you like and has a few more features. The link is Chart Magic under Resources in the right hand sidebar.
Alternatively with the web version you can either make the grid have smaller cells so you can fit more on, or split your pattern into several sections.

I was using your chart maker, had spent the last hour working on my chart, which was only displaying rows 13-40, and I was trying to get it to display the whole chart. I clicked on "frog" and it deleted the whole damn thing, which is apparently irreversible.
Why would you make such a function irreversible? That's a serious problem. Also, it'd be great if one could see the entire chart. Now to start all over... :(
*depressed sigh*